Three Africans and a Frenchman were arrested for allegedly running a “black money” scam on Pattaya area tourists and residents.
Fredrick Neba Fuh, 28, of Cameroon, Jean Messolo, 36, and Ahmed Camara, 26, of Guinea; and Vincent Philipot, 40, of France were apprehended at a south Pattaya hotel where they allegedly based their illegal scam.
The four members of the most recent black money gang.
In their rooms, police seized 6,000 blank pieces of paper cut to U.S. dollar size, five notes of an unknown currency, an aluminum case, luggage and four mobile phones.
Transnational Crime Coordination Center investigators alleged the four ran numerous scams in which they convinced people trying to make a fast fortune by counterfeiting currency that they could turned the black-coated paper blanks into American dollars by simply washing them with chemicals in the aluminum case.
The scammers then had their targets pay large sums for the supposed magic chemicals, then disappeared.
